Senior Corporate Counsel

PagerDuty•San Francisco, CA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

PagerDuty is seeking an experienced attorney with a strong privacy, data protection, and marketing/advertising background to join our Legal team. The ideal candidate has shown the ability to build deep expertise in privacy, marketing, and advertising law, and to effectively build trusted relationships with internal stakeholders. This person is also a highly motivated team player who loves to learn and is excited to make an immediate impact to the company’s values and growth, with the ability to think ahead, see around corners, and help prepare for the privacy landscape of the future. This role is expected to come into the San Francisco office 2 days per week as part of PagerDuty’s hybrid work model, so you can thrive in your new role and fully embrace being a Dutonian!

Requirements

A law degree and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar in good standing.
Authorization to practice law in the state where you will be based, or eligibility to become authorized (e.g., eligible to register for an in-house counsel status in a state that offers such status).
6+ years of applicable legal experience at a leading law firm, in-house legal department, or governmental agency.
3+ years of hands-on privacy experience.

Nice To Haves

Deep experience in privacy, including experience in GDPR, CCPA, CIPA and, ideally, other privacy frameworks as well.
Solid experience advising on marketing and advertising legal issues, including reviewing marketing claims, adtech implementation, marketing consents, and contest rules.
Passionate about issues that lie at the intersection of law and technology, including understanding the technical details.
Experience in litigation, M&A deals, regulatory inquiries, product counseling, or IP.
Successful ability to investigate, analyze, and solve complex legal issues, and develop practical risk mitigation options.
Demonstrated ability to concisely, accurately, and clearly explain legal considerations with context to a wide range of audiences, both orally and in writing, including translating between legal frameworks and technical details.
History of building collaborative relationships and catalyzing others.
Ability to envision and lead complex projects to successful completion, and to manage multiple projects at once, ensuring focus on the highest priority needs.
Proven track record of identifying the most important issues, explaining why they matter, and developing practical solutions.
Demonstrated ability to act on the best information available and manage uncertainty, including in areas of newly emerging and evolving laws.
Desire to learn, a strong work ethic, a high level of integrity, and dedication to providing top-notch legal counsel.
Team player-mindset with a positive attitude, a love of solving problems, and a passion for delighting customers and earning their trust.

Responsibilities

Scale, and mature PagerDuty’s global privacy program, including planning and implementing self-help resources, training, tools and systems.
Support revenue objectives by collaborating with our Commercial Legal and Deal Desk teams to provide clear and concise counsel on privacy issues for customer deals, including DPAs and questionnaires.
Support PagerDuty’s marketing initiatives by providing practical legal advice on a wide range of marketing and advertising legal issues, including issues that have a privacy overlap.
Learn and understand PagerDuty’s business and technical operations and develop solutions to legal issues that take the above into account.
Collaborate across the company (including partnership with Product Counsel, Procurement Counsel, Security Managers, Engineers, Product Managers, and IT managers) to support a variety of privacy matters and initiatives; such as data mapping, privacy by design, impact assessments, vendor data protection, privacy notices and policies, subject access requests, and incident response.
Maintain awareness of the privacy and marketing/advertising legal landscape as PagerDuty’s subject matter expert, collaborating with outside counsel as needed on complex, higher-risk matters.
Monitor and analyze emerging privacy,data protection, marketing, and advertising laws, regulations, enforcement activity, trends and industry best practices.
Collaborate to develop PagerDuty’s public policy position in privacy, data protection, marketing and advertising.
Advise on likely trends and best practices to prepare for the future.
Support non-privacy projects based on business priorities as a legal generalist, learning new areas of law as needed. Projects may include non-privacy product counseling areas, dispute resolution, or IP matters.

Benefits

Competitive salary
Comprehensive benefits package
Flexible work arrangements
Company equity
ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Program)
Retirement or pension plan
Generous paid vacation time
Paid holidays and sick leave
Dutonian Wellness Days & HibernationDuty - companywide paid days off in addition to PTO
Paid parental leave: 22 weeks for pregnant parent, 12 weeks for non-pregnant parent (some countries have longer leave standards and we comply with local laws)
Paid volunteer time off: 20 hours per year
Company-wide hack weeks
Mental wellness programs